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- 1839-1859 / (Creation)
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48 ff.; 180 x 105 mm. Cloth binding.
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Biographical history
Archival history
Previously owned by R[ees] J[enkin] Jones, 1859.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Goronwy Jones, M.D; Swansea; Donation; February 1943
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Scope and content
An edition in Greek of The Prometheus Chained by Aeschylus, reprinted from the text of Augustus Wellauer (London 1839), interleaved with extensive manuscript additions in English by R.J. Jones, 1859.
The main manuscript additions comprise line by line English or Latin translations of significant words and phrases, and notes on points of Greek accidence. The endpapers are inscribed with quotations from Latin commentaries on Aeschylus's tragedies, a list of characters in this play and brief biographical notes in English.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- Ancient Greek
- English
- Latin
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Ancient Greek, English and Latin;
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Enclosure: A note of the donor's identity and contents of the volume.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 16267B.
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
September 2006.
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- English
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Archivist's note
This description was compiled by Hilary A. Peters;